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Whenever somebody brings up New Guardians, I think of Cry for Justice and that creepy panel where Gloss gets killed.
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Feb 21, 2016 03:21
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At least fridging Harbinger paved way for Forerunner, greatest character ever.
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Feb 21, 2016 03:28
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Evil Mastermind posted:comics e: To contribute something, here's a mission briefing from X-Force before they became X-Statix. 
Darthemed fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Feb 21, 2016 |
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Feb 21, 2016 04:30
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I was wondering if there was actually something unbelievable about those for a bit.
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graybook posted:I was wondering if there was actually something unbelievable about those for a bit. STAH: Newspaper comics continue to exist.
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Feb 21, 2016 04:33
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Darthemed posted:Yo, EM, wrong thread.  For content, remember Spawn? It's been mentioned a bunch of times in this thread, but for some reason the ending of the series popped into my mind today. See, by the end of the series the war between Heaven and Hell manifested on Earth via God and Satan being born as twins to Wanda, Al Simmon's ex-wife. They were constantly killing each other and coming back until things escalated to God and Satan finally engaging in TRUE FORM battles that ended up killing everyone on the planet. I don't remember the details, but Spawn managed to trap God and Satan on an alternate empty planet where they could smackdown for all eternity on top of bringing all the humans back to life (with full memories of what happened). But that's not the dumbest part. The dumbest part is when, as a reward, Spawn gets all his memories from his living days back. In the beginning of the series, Simmons was angsting because Wanda married his best friend and they had a kid, and back when Simmons was alive he and Wanda were trying (and failing) to conceive. But when he got his memories back; he remembered that he did get Wanda pregnant. But he was actually an abusive husband, and when Wanda told him she was pregnant, he punched her in the stomach so hard she miscarried because he apparently didn't actually want a kid. And that was how the series ended. It turns out that our hero was actually a wife-beating prick the whole time! So he returns to the alleys to be a homeless nobody once again, and presumably a large chunk of humanity goes insane due to the whole aware-of-own-death-and-resurrection-plus-God-and-Satan-exist-and-don't-care thing. The end!
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Darthemed posted:Yo, EM, wrong thread. X-Statix was a treasure. 
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Choco1980 posted:I always felt bad for Harbinger and Pariah. They were cool designed characters that just plain had zero interesting about them outside of the context of Crisis on Infinite Earths. Yeah, Pariah could've been a really interesting character to explore more beyond the original Crisis. At least Harbinger got to show up again periodically before her fridging...it's just she showed up in really loving stupid series.
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Feb 21, 2016 21:00
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Yeah, Pariah could've been a really interesting character to explore more beyond the original Crisis. Or even a Quantum Leap style anthology where nothing he does saves anything. If it's just as the signal that poo poo's going down (as with Red Skies) then we'd probably get real tired of that fast.
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Feb 22, 2016 02:27
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FilthyImp posted:If it's in a way that frees him from being the multiversal Bearer of Bad News then maybe that could work. Trying to live after being witness to untold numbers of cosmic deaths would be interesting. I would legit buy every issue of either of those series.
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Feb 22, 2016 03:47
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And I could totally see a subplot of a character or characters who come under the misguided belief that ending Pariah's existence would prevent cosmic cataclysm and try to fight him heavily. Of course his latent invulnerability would cause problems with that.
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Feb 22, 2016 04:29
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wtb issue with Pariah looking in the mirror and exclaiming "I'm retarded?"
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Feb 22, 2016 04:33
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Keep him this forlorn Wandering Cosmic Jew figure, condemned to witness the greatest disasters—unwelcome in all places, thought by some to cause the troubles he's cursed to move toward. Then some TEEN TITANS find out about him and get together to follow Pariah around, trying to either solve everything he finds or at least, you know, cheer the guy up. Even the metaphysically cursed could use a friend, guys!
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I've been watching The Flash and now I'm really in the mood to hear about the ridiculous poo poo speedsters have been getting into. Like Flash beating teleportation in a race.Guy A. Person posted:There was an issue where he had to race a god alien from the far end of the universe back to earth when the alien could just teleport there. The solution was to use some loophole where they got everyone on earth to run so Flash could absorb their speed (including all the other super fast heroes) and then some other super fast alien still lent him the speed of his entire superfast planet. So Flash outraced instant teleportation across the entire universe. Anyone got anything good like that?
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   Related poo poo that actually happened: A pretty amazing song, albeit with inaccurate characterization, about the Flash.
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There was the issue of Quasar where the Runner (one of the Elders of the Universe) held a race from the earth to the moon. It was won by a guy in a ragged red-and-gold outfit who had lost his memory but thought his name was something like "Buried Alien."  
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Barry didn't just win, he ran the entire race as everyone else was about to cross the finish line. The Flash is really loving fast. Smallville did it well. WickedHate fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Feb 23, 2016 00:57
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WickedHate posted:Barry didn't just win, he ran the entire race as everyone else was about to cross the finish line. Quicksilver got owned hard in Avengers/JLA. And I'm okay with that.
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prefect posted:Quicksilver got owned hard in Avengers/JLA. Why? WickedHate posted:Barry didn't just win, he ran the entire race as everyone else was about to cross the finish line. What is Flash wearing and why?
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RareAcumen posted:Why? Quicksilver has always been a dick. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little, but he's always some degree of jerk. RareAcumen posted:What is Flash wearing and why? Flash is wearing a device that stores Speed Force and allows him to run fast when he's not in the DC universe. Without that power source, he can't run faster than a normal guy. Those panels are from the Avengers-JLA crossover, and they definitely moved between the two universes. They might have been outside of them at some point, too.
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Flash clowning on Quicksilver chat, right after I was reminded about Amalgam? Time for some 1990s DC vs. Marvel pages!   <Quicksilver> ooooh my precious mutant angst ooooh dear ooooh <Flash> haha eat poo poo at lightspeed hairdo man
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Feb 23, 2016 01:52
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The Quasar one is always my favorite example. The Flash is so drat fast that when his company's competitor decided to have a race of all its fastest beings, they put him in there and had him make them all look like poo poo.
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Squizzle posted:Flash clowning on Quicksilver chat, right after I was reminded about Amalgam? Time for some 1990s DC vs. Marvel pages! Christ, what an rear end in a top hat
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Feb 23, 2016 02:11
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I also liked Aquaman clowning on Namor in Marvel Vs. DC
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Then he dropped an orca on Namor. A couple of the voter-decided bouts obviously made Marz (who wrote that issue) go "idk how that could, I mean it's not—oh whatever" and just script "THEN THE FIGHT ENDS". Silver Surfer vs. Green Lantern, and Wolverine vs. Lobo: both terrible page-wastes.
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I like how they retconned it that Professor X bribed Lobo to take a fall because that actually makes more sense than what happened.
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ImpAtom posted:I like how they retconned it that Professor X bribed Lobo to take a fall because that actually makes more sense than what happened. 
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Robin vs Jubilee was kinda cute. I can't remember who won in Superman vs Hulk, that's the one that most feels like a metaphysical argument rather than a fight.
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Skwirl posted:I can't remember who won in Superman vs Hulk, that's the one that most feels like a metaphysical argument rather than a fight. Superman just laser visioned him unconscious. I was super disappointed in that one as a kid.
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Holy poo poo, this Superman is so handsome and his hair is like, Weird Al Yankovic level great, what the gently caress happened?! Skwirl posted:I can't remember who won in Superman vs Hulk, that's the one that most feels like a metaphysical argument rather than a fight. WickedHate posted:Superman just laser visioned him unconscious. I was super disappointed in that one as a kid. What the gently caress, that almost sounded interesting. And worst of all it makes it sound like Cyclops possibly could stop the Hulk.
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Skwirl posted:Robin vs Jubilee was kinda cute. I can't remember who won in Superman vs Hulk, that's the one that most feels like a metaphysical argument rather than a fight. Superman vs. Hulk wasn't written as a fight so much as an effort to make sure the fewest people possible wrote letters screeching in unpunctuated longhand that one or the other character got chumped, this fight was bullshit, you don't know this character good enough, [homophobic slurs], the ~*real~* Hulk/Superman would never be so flimsy and womannish, why do you hate this great character, [brusque but evocative descriptions of recipient's mother's sex life], [unsolicited opinions about Israel???]. But yes, Robin vs. Jubilee was a cute, very in-character little match and way obviously a prelude to one of the two characters introducing the other to second base. Captain Marvel vs. Thor was at least clever if not actually great.
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RareAcumen posted:Holy poo poo, this Superman is so handsome and his hair is like, Weird Al Yankovic level great, what the gently caress happened?! The 90s Supermullet is the best. It showed up in a BTAS adaption before the Superman cartoon came out, along with 90s Luthor:  
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Squizzle posted:Then he dropped an orca on Namor. See also the Superboy vs. Spider-Man fight.
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RareAcumen posted:Holy poo poo, this Superman is so handsome and his hair is like, Weird Al Yankovic level great, what the gently caress happened?! Makes sense, Havok knocked out the Hulk by absorbing his gamma rays and then refocusing it into a powerful blast.
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RareAcumen posted:What the gently caress, that almost sounded interesting. And worst of all it makes it sound like Cyclops possibly could stop the Hulk. 
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Actually, if I recall, and I don't want to grab the comics to scan them. Hulk started off, using a statue of Supes to beat down Metallo. They both punched him out, got teleported to their, "battle ground" He blasted Hulk with heat vision, "Oh. You looked too tough for a dose of heat vision to take you out." Then they just started punching each other. Superman out punched Hulk (Eh. It was Banner-Hulk.) Superman claimed he could finally take off the kid gloves to do it, though. Not even a fly around the world punch, or a punch him into space.. they just kinda slug it out, toe to toe. edit: found it. 
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Feb 23, 2016 04:42
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Ghostlight posted:Cyclops doesn't have laser vision though. Well that's news to me. Also, I never thought of Venom as that strong.
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RZApublican posted:See also the Superboy vs. Spider-Man fight. That at least had some back-and-forth, and showed how things resolved. Here's page two of the Lantern/Surfer fight:  And here's how the Lobo/Wolverine fight ends (after all the excitement of the two gritting teeth at each other, one hit, and Wolverine explaining his factor as the damage reverses itself in the space of a panel):  Since the whole point was to show all these characters slapping each other across company lines, that's some shameful, lazy work.
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RareAcumen posted:Well that's news to me. Also, I never thought of Venom as that strong. He's not, that comic was insane.
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